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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
Charles Dickens
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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?
Dee Hock
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Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.
Oliver Sacks
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The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
Paul Hindemith
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.
Margaret Atwood
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Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.
Gerhart Hauptmann
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The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.
Edmund Gibson
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
Edward Abbey
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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us
Dean Koontz
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The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.
Irvine Welsh
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Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.
Eli Broad
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I really put a lot of and emotion into my project in order to evoke emotion.
Drake
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Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
Joseph Campbell
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Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.
Joseph Campbell
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A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
Mason Cooley
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The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.
Thomas Szasz
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Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
Charles Rosen
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Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.
David Platt
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His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.
J. B. Torrance
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Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude
Jim Rohn
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Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
Barbara Tuchman
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My music should evoke a feeling; whether it's a feeling in your stomach, goosebumps, whatever. When you don't get a feeling then there's a problem.
Rahki
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I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.
John Lloyd Young
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How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?
Deborah Tall
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Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
Ned Rorem
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
Bram Stoker
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There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.
Eric Hoffer
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Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.
Andy Stanley
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
Garry Disher
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People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
William Faulkner